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Working in the Shadows
Gabriel Thompson
Next air time: Saturday, March 20th at 8am (ET)

The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger
Kate Pickett; Richard Wilkinson
Next air time: Sunday, March 21st at 10am (ET)

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The Death and Life of American Journalism: The Media Revolution that Will Begin the World Again Robert McChesney; John Nichols Last aired: March 15, 2010	Author Interview: Daniel Shapiro "Is the Welfare State Justified?" Daniel Shapiro Last aired: March 14, 2010
Author Interview: Matthew Corrigan "American Royalty" Matthew Corrigan Last aired: March 7, 2010	A Cracking of the Heart David Horowitz Last aired: March 7, 2010
Author Interview: Aaron Sheehan-Dean "Concise Historical Atlas of the U.S. Civil War" Aaron Sheehan-Dean Last aired: March 1, 2010	Author Interview: Thomas Lewis "Brace For Impact" Thomas Lewis Last aired: February 28, 2010
Author Interview: Paul Cuadros "A Home on the Field" Paul Cuadros Last aired: February 27, 2010	Gridlock: Why We're Stuck in Traffic and What to do About It Randal O'Toole Last aired: February 21, 2010
Racing While Black: How an African-American Stock Car Team Made Its Mark on Nascar Leonard Miller; Andrew Simon Last aired: February 21, 2010	Author Interview: Woden Teachout "Capture the Flag" Woden Teachout Last aired: February 20, 2010
The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger Kate Pickett; Richard Wilkinson Last aired: February 14, 2010	Author Interview: Robert Moore "They Always Said I Would Marry A White Girl" Robert Moore Last aired: February 14, 2010
Carjacked: The Culture of the Automobile & Its Effects on Our Lives Catherine Lutz; Anne Lutz Fernandez Last aired: January 31, 2010	A Country Called Amreeka: Arab Roots, American Stories Alia Malek Last aired: January 17, 2010
Watch Online: Malcolm Gladwell "Outliers" Malcolm Gladwell Last aired: January 11, 2010	Jonathan Safran Foer, "Eating Animals" and Frank Bruni, "Born Round" Frank Bruni; Jonathan Safran Foer Last aired: January 10, 2010
I Am Martin Eisenstadt: One Man's (Wildly Inappropriate) Adventure with the Last Republicans Eitan Gorlin; Dan Mirvish Last aired: January 9, 2010	A Better Man: True American Heroes Speak to Young Men on Love, Power, Pride and What it Really Means to Be a Man Kelly H Johnson Last aired: January 3, 2010
Go, Tell Michelle: African-American Women Write to the New First Lady Peggy Brooks-Bertram; Barbara Nevergold Last aired: January 2, 2010	Watch Online: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf "This Child Will Be Great" Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Last aired: January 1, 2010
The Future of Faith Harvey Cox Last aired: December 27, 2009	Searching for Whitopia: An Improbable Journey to the Heart of White America Rich Benjamin Last aired: December 14, 2009
Love Leadership: The New Way to Lead in a Fear-Based World John Hope Bryant Last aired: December 6, 2009	Women Lead the Way: Your Guide to Stepping Up to Leadership and Changing the World Linda Tarr-Whelan Last aired: December 6, 2009
Watch Online: James McWilliams "Just Food" James McWilliams Last aired: November 30, 2009	Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town Nick Reding Last aired: November 28, 2009
Hollowing Out the Middle: The Rural Brain Drain and What it Means for America Patrick J. Carr Last aired: November 26, 2009	Watch Online: Larry Wilmore "I'd Rather We Got Casinos" Larry Wilmore Last aired: November 9, 2009
Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming of the Dark Age Maggie Jackson Last aired: November 9, 2009	Author Interview: Ernest "Fritz" Hollings "Making Government Work" Ernest "Fritz" Hollings Last aired: November 8, 2009
Watch Online: Kari Lydersen "Revolt on Goose Island" Kari Lydersen Last aired: November 7, 2009	Watch Online: Judy Blume from the NBF Gala Judy Blume Last aired: November 1, 2009
You Can't Predict a Hero: From War to Wall Street, Leading in Times of Crisis Joseph Grano Last aired: October 31, 2009	Burying Don Imus Michael Awkward Last aired: October 25, 2009
Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America Barbara Ehrenreich Last aired: October 25, 2009	Who's to Say What's Obscene? Politics, Culture and Comedy in America Today Paul Krassner Last aired: October 11, 2009
Author Interview: Eugene Zeigler "When Conscience and Power Meet" Eugene Zeigler Last aired: October 10, 2009	Shake the Devil Off: A True Story of the Murder that Rocked New Orleans Ethan Brown Last aired: October 3, 2009
Outcasts United: A Refugee Team, an American Town Warren St. John Last aired: September 20, 2009	Revolt on Goose Island: The Chicago Factory Takeover, and What it Says About the Economic Crisis Kari Lydersen Last aired: September 13, 2009
Capital Punishment: An Indictment by a Death Row Survivor Billy Wayne Sinclair; Jodie Sinclair Last aired: August 30, 2009	C-SPAN Lincoln Book Binding Process C-SPAN Staff Last aired: August 23, 2009
Library of Congress Darwin Books Constance Carter Charles Darwin Last aired: August 23, 2009	The Years of Talking Dangerously Geoffrey Nunberg Last aired: August 23, 2009
2009 BookExpo America: Julie Andrews and Emma Walton Hamilton Julie Andrews; Emma Walton Hamilton Last aired: August 17, 2009	Organization of American Historians 2009: Paula Kamen "Finding Iris Chang" Paula Kamen Last aired: August 16, 2009
Something's Rising: Appalachians Fighting Mountaintop Removal Silas House; Jason Howard Last aired: August 16, 2009	Operation Bite Back: Rod Coronado's War to Save American Wilderness Dean Kuipers Last aired: August 16, 2009
Next Stop, Reloville: Life Inside America's New Rootless Professional Class Peter Kilborn Last aired: August 16, 2009	Sugar of the Crop: My Journey to Find the Children of Slaves Sana Butler Last aired: August 15, 2009
China Underground Zachary Mexico Last aired: August 15, 2009	The Uncrowned King: The Sensational Rise of William Randolph Hearst Kenneth Whyte Last aired: August 9, 2009
The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite David Kessler Last aired: August 9, 2009	Driving Like Crazy: Thirty Years of Vehicular Hell-Bending P.J. O'Rourke Last aired: August 8, 2009
The Dangerous World of Butterflies: The Startling Subculture of Criminals, Collectors, and Conservationists Peter Laufer Last aired: August 2, 2009	What Becomes of the Brokenhearted: A Memoir E. Lynn Harris Last aired: July 26, 2009
The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power and the Future of the World Michelle Goldberg Last aired: July 26, 2009	I'd Rather We Got Casinos and Other Black Thoughts Larry Wilmore Last aired: July 20, 2009
Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street Michael Davis Last aired: July 6, 2009	The Naked Truth: Young, Beautiful, and (HIV) Positive Marvelyn Brown Last aired: July 4, 2009
Book TV Bus - Bob Sloan "Bearskin to Holly Fork: Stories from Appalachia" Bob Sloan Last aired: June 20, 2009	Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities and Occasional Moments of Grace Ayelet Waldman Last aired: June 14, 2009
Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption Judy Blume; Ronald Cotton; Erin Torneo Last aired: June 8, 2009	What Are You Reading? Michelle Easton Michelle Easton Last aired: June 6, 2009
Book TV Bus - Marc Leepson, Author, "Desperate Engagement: How a Little-Known Civil War Battle Saved Washington, D.C., and Changed American History" Marc Leepson Last aired: June 1, 2009	Book TV Bus Vignette: Linda Hall Library of Science, Bruce Bradley, Librarian for the History of Science Bruce Bradley Last aired: June 1, 2009
National Press Club Book & Author Night, Betty Monkman, "The Living White House" Betty Monkman Last aired: May 31, 2009	Book TV Civics Bus - Christine King Farris, "Through it All: Reflections on My Life..." Christine King Farris Last aired: May 30, 2009
What Are You Reading? David Keene David Keene Last aired: May 26, 2009	A Saint on Death Row: The Story of Dominque Green Thomas Cahill Last aired: May 24, 2009
The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement W. Keith Campbell; Jean Twenge Last aired: May 24, 2009	Book TV Bus - Diane Eickhoff, "Revolutionary Heart: The Life of Clarina Nichols And the Pioneering Crusade for Women's Rights" Diane Eickhoff Last aired: May 17, 2009
Book TV Video Blog: George Herring Book Talk George Herring Last aired: May 10, 2009	Notes From No Man's Land Eula Biss Last aired: May 10, 2009
God is Back: How the Global Revival of Faith is Changing the World John Micklethwait; Adrian Wooldridge Last aired: May 10, 2009	Land of the Lost Souls: My Life on the Streets Cadillac Man Last aired: May 10, 2009
Blind Spot: When Journalists Don't Get Religion Roberta Green Ahmanson; Lela Gilbert; Paul Marshall Last aired: May 3, 2009	Book TV Civics Bus - Melissa Fay Greene, "There Is No Me Without You" Melissa Fay Greene Last aired: May 3, 2009
Robert Earle, What Are You Reading? Robert Earle Last aired: May 3, 2009	What Are You Reading? Bay Buchanan Bay Buchanan Last aired: April 26, 2009
Submersion Journalism: Reporting in the Radical First Person from Harper's Magazine Ted Conover; Jeff Sharlet; Ken Silverstein; Bill Wasik Last aired: April 19, 2009	Book TV Civics Bus - Jedwin Smith, "Our Brother's Keeper" Jedwin Smith Last aired: April 12, 2009
Book TV Bus - James St. Clair, Co-author, "Sherman Minton: Neal Deal Senator, Cold War Justice" James St. Clair Last aired: April 6, 2009	With God on All Sides: Leadership in a Devout and Diverse America Douglas Hicks Last aired: April 4, 2009
Church of Lies Flora Jessop Last aired: April 4, 2009	Book TV Bus - Ronald Hatzenbuehler, Author, "I Tremble for My Country: Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia Gentry" Ronald Hatzenbuehler Last aired: March 29, 2009
Outliers: The Story of Success Malcolm Gladwell Last aired: March 29, 2009	Book TV Video Blog: Robert Mrazek Robert Mrazek Last aired: March 29, 2009
Book TV Bus - Diana Washington Valdez: Harvest of Women Diana Washington Valdez Last aired: March 22, 2009	Book TV Bus - John Hagedorn, "A World of Gangs: Armed Young Men and Gangsta Culture" John Hagedorn Last aired: March 22, 2009
Book TV Bus - Bob Sloan "Missing Mountains: We went to the mountaintop but it wasn't there " Bob Sloan (Contributor) Last aired: March 21, 2009

This Weekend's TV Schedule

Beginning Saturdays at 8am (ET)

Highlights

After Words: Diane Ravitch, "The Death and Life of the Great American School System," interviewed by Valerie Strauss, Washington Post
Next air time: Saturday, March 20th, at 10pm (ET)
Approx. 56 min.

My Dream of Stars: From Daughter of Iran to Space Pioneer
Anousheh Ansari
Next air time: Saturday, March 20th, at 9:15am (ET)
Approx. 46 min.

The Shadows of Youth: The Remarkable Journey of the Civil Rights Generation
Andrew Lewis
Next air time: Saturday, March 20th, at 2:30pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 31 min.

A Day Late and a Dollar Short: High Hopes and Deferred Dreams in Obama's "Postracial" America
Jon Jeter; Robert Pierre
Next air time: Saturday, March 20th, at 7pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 11 min.

How Capitalism Will Save Us: Why Free People and Free Markets Are the Best Answer in Today's Economy
Steve Forbes
Next air time: Saturday, March 20th, at 9pm (ET)
Approx. 53 min.

The Genius of the Beast: A Radical Re-Vision of Capitalism
Howard Bloom
Next air time: Sunday, March 21st, at 6:30am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 9 min.

The Idea of Justice
Amartya Sen
Next air time: Sunday, March 21st, at 2:15am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 22 min.

The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves - And Why It Matters
B.R. Myers
Next air time: Sunday, March 21st, at 7pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 4 min.

The Greatest Trade Ever: The Behind-the-Scenes Story of How John Paulson Defied Wall Street and Made Financial History
Gregory Zuckerman
Next air time: Sunday, March 21st, at 2:30pm (ET)
Approx. 51 min.

Also Airing...

Saturday, March 20th

8am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 6 min.
Working in the Shadows
Gabriel Thompson

9:15am (ET)
Approx. 46 min.
My Dream of Stars: From Daughter of Iran to Space Pioneer
Anousheh Ansari

10am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 5 min.
James McGrath Morris, "Pulitzer: A Life in Politics. Print, and Power" and Michael Wolff, "The Man Who Owns the News: Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch"
James McGrath Morris; Michael Wolff

11am (ET)
Approx. 42 min.
Drug War Zone: Frontline Dispatches from the Streets of El Paso and Juárez
Howard Campbell

11:45am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 9 min.
Discussion of Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations"
Samuel Fleischacker; Russell Roberts

1pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 30 min.
Freeing Charles: The Struggle to Free a Slave on the Eve of the Civil War
Scott Christianson

2:30pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 31 min.
The Shadows of Youth: The Remarkable Journey of the Civil Rights Generation
Andrew Lewis

4pm (ET)
Approx. 44 min.
Seeds of Terror: How Heroin Is Bankrolling the Taliban and Al Qaeda
Gretchen Peters

4:45pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 8 min.
Three Days Before the Shooting...
Adam Bradley; John Callahan

6pm (ET)
Approx. 56 min.
Encore Booknotes: Midge Decter "An Old Wife's Tale"
Midge Decter

7pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 11 min.
A Day Late and a Dollar Short: High Hopes and Deferred Dreams in Obama's "Postracial" America
Jon Jeter; Robert Pierre

8:15pm (ET)
Approx. 46 min.
My Dream of Stars: From Daughter of Iran to Space Pioneer
Anousheh Ansari

9pm (ET)
Approx. 53 min.
How Capitalism Will Save Us: Why Free People and Free Markets Are the Best Answer in Today's Economy
Steve Forbes

10pm (ET)
Approx. 56 min.
After Words: Diane Ravitch, "The Death and Life of the Great American School System," interviewed by Valerie Strauss, Washington Post

11pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 31 min.
The Shadows of Youth: The Remarkable Journey of the Civil Rights Generation
Andrew Lewis

Sunday, March 21st

12:30am (ET)
Approx. 26 min.
Asleep: The Forgotten Epidemic that Remains one of Medicine's Greatest Mysteries
Molly Caldwell Crosby

1am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 6 min.
Working in the Shadows
Gabriel Thompson

2:15am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 22 min.
The Idea of Justice
Amartya Sen

3:45am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 9 min.
Discussion of Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations"
Samuel Fleischacker; Russell Roberts

5am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 30 min.
Freeing Charles: The Struggle to Free a Slave on the Eve of the Civil War
Scott Christianson

6:30am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 9 min.
The Genius of the Beast: A Radical Re-Vision of Capitalism
Howard Bloom

8am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 31 min.
The Shadows of Youth: The Remarkable Journey of the Civil Rights Generation
Andrew Lewis

9:30am (ET)
Approx. 33 min.
Tracy Kidder, "Strength in What Remains"
Tracy Kidder

10am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 1 min.
The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger
Kate Pickett; Richard Wilkinson

11am (ET)
Approx. 53 min.
How Capitalism Will Save Us: Why Free People and Free Markets Are the Best Answer in Today's Economy
Steve Forbes

12pm (ET)
Approx. 56 min.
After Words: Bill & Janet Cohen, "Race & Reconciliation," interviewed by Rep. John Lewis

1pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 22 min.
The Idea of Justice
Amartya Sen

2:30pm (ET)
Approx. 51 min.
The Greatest Trade Ever: The Behind-the-Scenes Story of How John Paulson Defied Wall Street and Made Financial History
Gregory Zuckerman

3:30pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 9 min.
The Genius of the Beast: A Radical Re-Vision of Capitalism
Howard Bloom

5pm (ET)
Approx. 56 min.
The Watchers: The Rise of America's Surveillance State
Shane Harris

6pm (ET)
Approx. 59 min.
2010 Tucson Festival of the Book - Timothy Egan
Timothy Egan

7pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 4 min.
The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves - And Why It Matters
B.R. Myers

8:15pm (ET)
Approx. 42 min.
Root and Branch: Charles Hamilton Houston, Thurgood Marshall, and the Struggle to End Segregation
Rawn James

9pm (ET)
Approx. 56 min.
After Words: Diane Ravitch, "The Death and Life of the Great American School System," interviewed by Valerie Strauss, Washington Post

10pm (ET)
Approx. 51 min.
The Greatest Trade Ever: The Behind-the-Scenes Story of How John Paulson Defied Wall Street and Made Financial History
Gregory Zuckerman

11pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 3 min.
Shaping Foreign Policy in Times of Crisis: The Role of International Law and the State Department Legal Adviser
Michael Scharf; Paul Williams

Monday, March 22nd

12am (ET)
Approx. 56 min.
After Words: Diane Ravitch, "The Death and Life of the Great American School System," interviewed by Valerie Strauss, Washington Post

1am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 42 min.
The Strong Horse: Power, Politics, and the Clash of Arab Civilizations
Lee Smith

3am (ET)
Approx. 56 min.
After Words: Diane Ravitch, "The Death and Life of the Great American School System," interviewed by Valerie Strauss, Washington Post

4am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 4 min.
The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves - And Why It Matters
B.R. Myers

5:15am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 3 min.
Discussion on the Afghanistan War
Seth Jones; Mark Moyar

6:15am (ET)
Approx. 46 min.
My Dream of Stars: From Daughter of Iran to Space Pioneer
Anousheh Ansari

7am (ET)
Approx. 51 min.
The Greatest Trade Ever: The Behind-the-Scenes Story of How John Paulson Defied Wall Street and Made Financial History
Gregory Zuckerman

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IN DEPTH

In Depth is Book TV's long form LIVE interview call-in program with one author discussing his or her body of work. It airs on the first Sunday of every month, beginning at Noon ET. You can watch previous episodes of In Depth online. In 2010 so far, Michelle Malkin, Paul Johnson, and T.R. Reid have been our guests. You can watch those online.

April--John Dean

Book Festivals

Book TV will be covering several book festivals this spring, including LIVE coverage of the Tucson Book Festival March 13-14, and the Virginia Festival of the Book in Charlottesville later in March. In April, plans for coverage include the Annapolis Book Festival as well as the Los Angeles Times Book Fair.